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...bruised and put-upon Alihodja sounds the elegiac theme of Andrić's book. He watches gloomily as the bustling Austrians destroy the "sweet tranquillity" of Visegrad. They busily replace the outmoded fountains with new " 'unclean' water which passed through iron pipes so that it was not fit to drink"; they industriously built a railroad to the border that finally puts an end to the centuries-old traffic over the Drina Bridge. The book's last chapters take place in the first months of World War I, with Visegrad being shelled impartially by Austrian and Serbian...
...Bloch: Concerto Grosso for Strings and Piano Obbligato (M); Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K. 614 (C); Hindemith: The Four Temperaments (E); Handel: Solomon (A); Imbrie: Quartet in B flat (C); Locatelli: Elegiac Symphony (W); Haydn: Trio...
With this bit of elegiac poesy, Punch last week began five pages of sardonic advice to its readers on "Britain's New Role: Learning To Be a 2nd Class Power." Instead of sighing for the golden days of Empire, Punch urged that Britons look to the wonderful possibilities of the future "once it has been established that Britain is operating in the second division...
This posthumous novel draws an elegiac picture of an American scene that vanished scarcely a generation ago but already seems as remote as Eden. The story opens in Knoxville. Tenn. as the city dreams through a summer evening filled with the cry of locusts, an evening as calm as the shirtsleeved men watering their lawns in the gentle half-light. A streetcar makes its metallic groan on a curve and disappears trailing sparks like blue fireflies; chanting children play in the circling glow of a lamppost. And when it grows dark, there are more quiet stars in the sky than...
...Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults the majesty of Rome, and leads his fellow Etruscans to ruin on the bloody field of Himera. In the end he goes alone to his doomed homeland in Etruria, where the famed twelve "sacred cities" stand in an elegiac hush awaiting the final onslaught of Gauls from the north and Romans from the south that will erase the Etruscan language and religion from history...